Guantanamo prison must be closed

The hunger strike at the U.S. prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base stems from President Barack Obama’s “catastrophic failure to end indefinite detention without charge or trial,” says Baher Azmy in the Daily Beast. The situation there is especially unjust “to those 86 men the Obama administration itself has cleared for release from Guantanamo,” he writes.

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I totally agree that Guantanamo prison needs to be closed. Many of the men detained there were sold to the US by bounty hunters and have never been charged with any crime. 86 have been cleared for release but continue to be held.

Since the guards were changed at the beginning of the year from Navy to Army personnel conditions have worsened again for men held up to 11 years without any signs of the possibility of release or even charges or trials.

Thanks for the excellent article by Baher Azmy. As he states President Obama could act on his own to release the 86 cleared prisoners and that would demonstrate that hope for justice still exists for all of the prisoners.

It would also right a legal and moral wrong that the whole world is aware of.